Zelaya afterwards made a secret arrangement with El Salvador to oust Davila from office.

Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.

In 2009 Zelaya caused controversy with his call to have a constitutional referendum in June to decide about convening a Constitutional National Assembly to formulate a new constitution.

Colonel Inestroza later stated that deporting Zelaya did not comply with the court order: " In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime.

On November 17, 1909, two Americans were executed by order of Zelaya after the two men confessed to having laid a mine in the San Juan River with the intention of blowing up the Diamante.

In the late 19th century, the United States government negotiated with President José Santos Zelaya to lease the land to build a canal through Nicaragua.

Zelaya claimed that Joya had reactivated the death squad, with dozens of government opponents having been murdered since the ascent of the Michiletti and Lobo governments.

When the United States shifted its interests to Panama, Zelaya negotiated with Germany ( who happened to be in the middle of a cold war with the U. S over Caribbean ports ) and Japan in an unsuccessful effort to have a canal constructed in his state.

José Zelaya had ambitions of reuniting the United States of Central America, with, he hoped, himself as national president.

The Zelaya administration had growing friction with the United States government, for example while the French government had inquired to the U. S. whether a loan to Nicaragua would be deemed unfriendly, the U. S. secretary of state required the loan to be conditional on U. S. relations.

* Manuel Zelaya – multiple interviews with the ousted president of Honduras

After being defeated by the conservatives in a civil war in the 1850s ( with the help of American troops ), the Liberal Party returned to power in 1893 under President José Santos Zelaya, who lost power in 1909.

On July 7, 2008, President Zelaya announced the reopening of Toncontín airport at a news conference following a three-hour meeting with businessmen, who had demanded commercial flights resume at Toncontín due to Soto Cano Air Base being too far from Tegucigalpa.

* CounterPunch, 17 July 2009, From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America with video report by Democracy Now!

Elected as a conservative, Zelaya shifted dramatically to the political left during his presidency, forging an alliance with the Hugo Chávez linked ALBA angering conservatives and his own Liberal Party.

The elections were held under a tense political atmosphere without the accustomed OAS observers and under a civil rights restriction decree, with the elected president Zelaya under military siege in the Brazilian embassy at Tegucigalpa.

Main MG-GN naval bases were situated at the coastal towns of Corinto ( Chinandega ) on the Pacific coast and Puerto Cabezas ( Zelaya ) on the Caribbean coast, with secondary naval stations set up at San Juan del Sur ( Rivas ) and El Bluff near Bluefields ( Zelaya ).

He came second to Manuel Zelaya with 46 % of the vote in the 2005 general election.

He came in second in the presidential election with 46. 17 % of the vote against 49. 90 % from his rival Manuel Zelaya of the Liberal Party of Honduras.

Rodriguez was later accused by Zelaya of conspiring and collaborating with the coup leaders.

Olimpia's base formation for the tournament was with Ricardo Tavarelli in goal ; Néstor Isasi, Julio César Cáceres, Nelson Zelaya and Henrique da Silva in defense ; Sergio Orteman, Victor Quintana, Julio Enciso and Gastón Córdoba in midfield ; and Miguel Benítez and Richart Báez ( later Hernán Rodrigo López ) in the front.

In 1930, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya became editor-in-chief, and in 1932 he bought the paper with the intention of promoting the principles of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua, as well as publicising historical studies of Nicaragua.

The United States noticed: it was in US interests to contain Zelaya, protect the region of the new Panama Canal, and defend the increasingly important banana trade.

This Nicaragua-assisted invasion by Honduran exiles strongly displeased the United States government, which concluded that Zelaya wanted to dominate the entire Central American region, and the government dispatched marines to Puerto Cortes to protect the banana trade ; US naval units were also sent to Honduras and were able to successfully defend Bonilla's last defense position at Amapala in the Gulfo de Fonseca.

However, due to the stance taken by the United Nations and the Organization of American States on use of military force to depose a president, most countries in the region and in the world continued to recognize Zelaya as the President of Honduras and denounced the actions as an assault on democracy.

In 1909, the United States provided political support to conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya.

* 1909 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries ( including two Americans ) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The government of the United States is convinced that the ideals and the will of the majority of the Nicaraguans are represented by the present revolution more faithfully than by the government of President Zelaya.

After President José Santos Zelaya resigned on December 21, 1909 in the face of an armed revolt and United States opposition, Madriz assumed the presidency.

In this capacity, he helped channel funds to the revolt against Liberal President José Santos Zelaya, who had incurred the anger of the United States by negotiating with Germany and Japan to resurrect the proposed Nicaragua Canal.

* 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.

On 17 December 1909, Zelaya turned over power to José Madriz and fled to Spain.

On 27 November 2005 Maduro presided over a new set of presidential and general elections which saw the official party lose the presidency to the Liberal Party of Honduras ( PLH ) and its candidate Manuel Zelaya.

It was also capital of the former Zelaya Department, which was divided into North and South Atlantic Autonomous Regions.

After enjoying almost complete autonomy for fourteen years, on 20 November 1894, their territory formally became incorporated in that of the republic of Nicaragua by Nicaraguan president José Santos Zelaya.

In 1894 the government of Nicaragua incorporated the Miskito Reserve into the national territory, extinguishing the Miskito monarchy, and on October 11, 1903 Bluefields was proclaimed capital of the Department of Zelaya.

In 1894, Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya fully incorporated the region into the state, at which time Greytown had 1482 inhabitants.

The former Mosquito Coast was established as the Nicaraguan department of Zelaya.

Consul Moffat, professor of mathematics in the chapter of mathematics applying to gastronomy -- that is, the chapter limited to giving the ciphers for eating today, for eating tomorrow and for eating day after tomorrow -- made the first dollars drop into the limp pocketbooks of the men opposed to Zelaya and was thus able to prove that psychology and mathematics have a common root.

Chamorro's first foray into politics came in 1893, when he participated in the failed revolution to topple President José Santos Zelaya.

* 1912 – U. S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U. S .- backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

Nicaragua's powerful President José Santos Zelaya saw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to undermine Bonilla.

Zelaya now supported liberal Honduran exiles in Nicaragua in their efforts to topple Bonilla, who had established himself as a dictator.

An important note is that this problem was on the verge of correction, until Pro-Panama representatives posed problems for Nicaragua ; the current leader ( General José Santos Zelaya ) did not cause problems, from the outlook of U. S. interests.

José Santos Zelaya López ( 1 November 1853 Managua-17 May 1919 New York City ) was the President of Nicaragua from 25 July 1893 to 21 December 1909.

He was a son of José María Zelaya Irigoyen, born in Nicaragua, and mistress Juana López Ramírez.

After the loan was pending on the Paris stock exchange, the U. S. further isolated Nicaragua by claiming any money Zelaya would receive " would be without doubt spent to purchase munitions to oppress his neighbors " and in " hostility to peace and progress in Central America.

The Russian province of Wenden issued stamps for a local post from 1862 to 1901, while Nicaragua issued stamps for Zelaya only, due to its use of a different currency.

Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, Tabaré Vázquez and José Mujica in Uruguay, the Lagos and Bachelet governments in Chile, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Manuel Zelaya in Honduras ( although deposed by the 28 June 2009 coup d ' état ), and Rafael Correa of Ecuador are all part of this wave of left-wing politicians who also often declare themselves socialists, Latin Americanists or anti-imperialists.

Zelaya is a former department in Nicaragua.

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In 1909, José Santos Zelaya, president of Nicaragua asked John to go to France to investigate airplanes.

Oquelí came to power in a revolution backed by José Santos Zelaya and the government of Nicaragua to oust the previous Honduran president, Manuel Bonilla.

Luis Mena Vado was the President of Nicaragua from 27 to 30 August 1910, after the fall of the government of General José Santos Zelaya.